Carmelo Giacovazzo

36.0k total citations · 11 hit papers
259 papers, 32.3k citations indexed

About

Carmelo Giacovazzo is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carmelo Giacovazzo has authored 259 papers receiving a total of 32.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Materials Chemistry, 73 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 43 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Carmelo Giacovazzo's work include X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (117 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (70 papers) and Crystallography and molecular interactions (65 papers). Carmelo Giacovazzo is often cited by papers focused on X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (117 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (70 papers) and Crystallography and molecular interactions (65 papers). Carmelo Giacovazzo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Carmelo Giacovazzo's co-authors include G. Cascarano, Angela Altomare, Antonietta Guagliardi, M. C. Burla, G. Polidori, Mercedes Camalli, R. Spagna, Anna Moliterni, M. Camalli and Benedetta Carrozzini and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal of Applied Crystallography and American Mineralogist.

In The Last Decade

Carmelo Giacovazzo

247 papers receiving 31.3k citations

Hit Papers

SIR97: a new tool for crystal structure determination and... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1999 1994 1993 2005 1994 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. SIR97: a new tool for crystal structure determination and refinement
    1999 8.3k citations Angela Altomare, M. C. Burla et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  2. SIRPOW.92 – a program for automatic solution of crystal structures by direct methods optimized for powder data
    1994 6.4k citations Angela Altomare, G. Cascarano et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  3. Completion and refinement of crystal structures withSIR92
    1993 4.8k citations Angela Altomare, G. Cascarano et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  4. SIR2004: an improved tool for crystal structure determination and refinement
    2005 2.4k citations M. C. Burla, Rocco Caliandro et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  5. SIR92 – a program for automatic solution of crystal structures by direct methods
    1994 1.3k citations Angela Altomare, G. Cascarano et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  6. SIR2002: the program
    2003 861 citations M. C. Burla, Mercedes Camalli et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  7. EXPO2013: a kit of tools for phasing crystal structures from powder data
    2013 766 citations Angela Altomare, Corrado Cuocci et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  8. Crystal structure determination and refinementviaSIR2014
    2015 734 citations M. C. Burla, Rocco Caliandro et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  9. SIR88 – a direct-methods program for the automatic solution of crystal structures
    1989 706 citations M. C. Burla, M. Camalli et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  10. IL MILIONE: a suite of computer programs for crystal structure solution of proteins
    2007 673 citations M. C. Burla, Rocco Caliandro et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
  11. SIR2011: a new package for crystal structure determination and refinement
    2012 515 citations M. C. Burla, Rocco Caliandro et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carmelo Giacovazzo Italy 35 14.9k 14.6k 10.8k 7.9k 7.2k 259 32.3k
G. Cascarano Italy 27 14.6k 1.0× 13.9k 1.0× 8.7k 0.8× 7.3k 0.9× 7.1k 1.0× 127 29.4k
Michael G. B. Drew United Kingdom 68 12.9k 0.9× 13.8k 0.9× 10.2k 0.9× 8.9k 1.1× 10.1k 1.4× 1.3k 30.3k
Michael B. Hursthouse United Kingdom 81 23.7k 1.6× 15.1k 1.0× 9.8k 0.9× 7.4k 0.9× 5.5k 0.8× 1.5k 38.5k
M. C. Burla Italy 25 11.8k 0.8× 11.0k 0.7× 7.0k 0.6× 6.0k 0.8× 5.8k 0.8× 90 23.7k
G. Polidori Italy 25 11.7k 0.8× 10.9k 0.7× 7.0k 0.6× 5.9k 0.8× 5.7k 0.8× 84 23.6k
Angela Altomare Italy 30 12.2k 0.8× 11.9k 0.8× 8.1k 0.8× 6.6k 0.8× 5.8k 0.8× 148 25.7k
Alexander J. Blake United Kingdom 97 16.0k 1.1× 25.7k 1.8× 15.4k 1.4× 12.0k 1.5× 7.1k 1.0× 1.1k 40.6k
Horst Puschmann United Kingdom 31 12.9k 0.9× 12.9k 0.9× 11.5k 1.1× 7.6k 1.0× 6.0k 0.8× 123 30.2k
Simon Parsons United Kingdom 79 9.2k 0.6× 10.7k 0.7× 11.6k 1.1× 9.8k 1.2× 6.7k 0.9× 670 26.6k
Oleg V. Dolomanov United Kingdom 13 12.1k 0.8× 12.1k 0.8× 9.8k 0.9× 6.9k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 30 27.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burla, M. C., Carmelo Giacovazzo, & G. Polidori. (2024). Updating direct methods II. Reduction of the structural complexity when triplet invariants are estimated via the Patterson map. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 57(4). 1011–1022. 1 indexed citations
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Burla, M. C., Benedetta Carrozzini, G. Cascarano, Carmelo Giacovazzo, & G. Polidori. (2018). Phasingviapure crystallographic least squares: an unexpected feature. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances. 74(2). 123–130.
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Burla, M. C., Benedetta Carrozzini, G. Cascarano, G. Polidori, & Carmelo Giacovazzo. (2018). CAB: a cyclic automatic model-building procedure. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 74(11). 1096–1104. 4 indexed citations
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Burla, M. C., Benedetta Carrozzini, G. Cascarano, Carmelo Giacovazzo, & G. Polidori. (2017). About difference electron densities and their properties. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances. 73(6). 460–473. 5 indexed citations
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Carrozzini, Benedetta, G. Cascarano, & Carmelo Giacovazzo. (2016). Phase improvementviathePhantom Derivativetechnique: ancils that are related to the target structure. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 72(4). 551–557. 8 indexed citations
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Burla, M. C., Benedetta Carrozzini, G. Cascarano, Carmelo Giacovazzo, & G. Polidori. (2015). Refining a model electron-density mapviathePhantom Derivativemethod. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 71(9). 1864–1871. 5 indexed citations
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Altomare, Angela, Corrado Cuocci, Carmelo Giacovazzo, Anna Moliterni, & Rosanna Rizzi. (2011). EXPO2011: A new package for powder crystallography. Powder Diffraction. 26(S1). S2–S12. 7 indexed citations
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Giacovazzo, Carmelo, Hugo L. Monaco, Gilberto Artioli, et al.. (2011). Fundamentals of Crystallography. Oxford University Press eBooks. 150 indexed citations
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Burla, M. C., Benedetta Carrozzini, G. Cascarano, Carmelo Giacovazzo, & G. Polidori. (2011). Advances in the VLD algorithm. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 44(6). 1143–1151. 24 indexed citations
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Bail, A. Le, L. M. D. Cranswick, Karim Adil, et al.. (2009). Third structure determination by powder diffractometry round robin (SDPDRR-3). Powder Diffraction. 24(3). 254–262. 30 indexed citations
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Moliterni, Anna, Angela Altomare, Gaetano Campi, et al.. (2009). New frontiers in powder diffraction pattern indexing: the programN-TREOR09. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 65(a1). s110–s110. 1 indexed citations
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Altomare, Angela, Rocco Caliandro, Corrado Cuocci, et al.. (2008). Direct methods and simulated annealing: a hybrid approach for powder diffraction data. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 41(1). 56–61. 27 indexed citations
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Altomare, Angela, Corrado Cuocci, Iván da Silva, et al.. (2005). Full powder pattern decomposition and direct phasing in EXPO2004 : A statistical study. Powder Diffraction. 20(4). 327–333. 3 indexed citations
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Carrozzini, Benedetta, M. C. Burla, Rocco Caliandro, et al.. (2005). SIR2004: new features forab-initiocrystal structure solution. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 61(a1). c151–c151. 1 indexed citations
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Moliterni, Anna, Angelina Altomare, Rocco Caliandro, et al.. (2002). EXPO2002: the new heir ofEXPO. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 58(s1). c266–c266.
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Burla, M. C., Benedetta Carrozzini, G. Cascarano, et al.. (2002). MAD phasing: probabilistic estimate of |Foa|. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(6). 928–935. 5 indexed citations
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Altomare, Angela, M. C. Burla, Mercedes Camalli, et al.. (1999). EXPO: a program for full powder pattern decomposition and crystal structure solution. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 32(2). 339–340. 438 indexed citations
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Burla, M. C., Carmelo Giacovazzo, Doriano Lamba, G. Polidori, & Giovanni Ughetto. (1999). Ab Initio Direct Phasing in Macromolecular Crystallography: an application of the Z-test. Croatica Chemica Acta. 72. 519–529. 1 indexed citations
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Giacovazzo, Carmelo & Dritan Siliqi. (1996). On Integrating Direct Methods and Isomorphous Replacement Techniques. I. A Distribution Function for Quartet Invariants. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 52(2). 133–142. 5 indexed citations
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Giacovazzo, Carmelo, S. Menchetti, & F. Scordari. (1973). The crystal structure of tincalconite. American Mineralogist. 58. 523–530. 24 indexed citations

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